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in georgia democrat rafael warnock the projected winner in the runoff against kelly leffler. the other race still too close to call as the left closes in on control of the senate. todd: on capitol hill, the last stand for donald trump, 100 gop lawmakers vowing to challenge the electoral college certification of the presidential results. with that we welcome you to "fox and friends first". jillian: let's get right to our fox news team coverage on this busy wednesday morning. griff jenkins and pete hegseth live in washington ahead of the electoral college challenge. we to will kane standing by in georgia where senator leffler has not yet conceded. live in atlanta results still coming in. >> reporter: good morning. you can bet there are a lot of democrats in georgia and around the country waking up with
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smiles on their faces. the big news democrat rafael warnock unseating senator kelly leffler in the georgia senate runoff race. warnock becomes georgia's first african-american elected to the senate. we heard from him a few hours ago. he declared victory in this race and said he's going to go to washington and look out for all georgians. take a listen. >> i am honored by the faith you have shown in me and i promise you this tonight. i am going to the senate to work for all of georgia. >> we are going to keep fighting for you. this is about protecting the american dream. i will never stop fighting for this country, the american dream. each one of you so every georgian has a voice in washington, i work for you. >> reporter: you heard from
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senator leffler, the fight is not over yet but democrats presumably picking up one seat in georgia. republicans still holding on to a slight majority in the senate with 51 seats but that could change if democrat john ossoff is able to follow up with the same success as warnock. 's race against david purdue remains too close to call. john ossoff's campaign manager releasing the statement overnight saying when all the votes are counted we fully expect john ossoff will have won this election to represent georgia and the united states senate. the purdue campaign vowing a legal fight should the race be called for ossoff, a statement from his campaign saying we will mobilize every available resource and exhaust every legal resource to ensure all legally cast ballots are properly counted. we believe in the end senator
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purdue will be victorious, donald trump weighing in this morning with more claims of voter fraud tweeting looks like they are setting up a big voter dump against the republican candidates, waiting to see how many votes they need. there are more votes to be counted. the director of elections tells us there are 4000 outstanding absentee ballot votes and an unknown amount of votes outstanding in 15 other counties around the state in fulton county where election workers will return at 8:30 to continue the count and we will learn more about these elections as the day moves on. jillian: appreciate it. let's bring in will kane talking about early voting and implications of that. we were talking a second ago how this seems like such a repeat of what happened in november for many reasons. the process and the process
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aftermath because it seems based on david purdue's statement he could be setting up for a legal battle, we will see, reading what he has to say in a statement. aside from that early voting favors democrats typically and republicans argument has always been we are going to get out on election day but seems for the second time in a row that argument isn't holding true anymore. >> reporter: early voting, mail in balloting, this is a revolutionary change in our political system, our electoral system. you have on-screen the total number of votes in both these georgia senate runoff races, 4.4 total million votes cast, 1 million of them just under 1 million of them cast your mail in balloting. last time there was a georgia senate runoff in 2008 there was a total of 2.1 million ballots cast. we have an increase of 2 million
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votes here because of largely no excuse mail in balloting, no excuse mail in balloting has changed the why do we have this? that is worth exploring, the reason is because of covid-19. we look around our society and the politicians going out to dinner and people going out and doing things, you can in large part participate in society in person and be safe. that obviously can happen so why cannot we vote in person? why are we not required to vote in person? this will change not just the senate, not just change georgia, not just change one presidential election, this will change america for the foreseeable future. todd: republicans are the party of traditional values, faith, family, they are the party of getting out and going to the election day and all that and what happens when covid-19 isn't a thing that prevents you from going to the polls on election
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day. is election day a thing of the past? will it be early voting in all 50 states or state legislatures that lean republican going to step up and say that is not happening here, we have to have election day because that's the right way to do it? >> reporter: i do not think, mail in voting to go away with kim jong un for going away. this is a fight for the future. the legislative agenda over the next two or four years. every election going forward. there's a reason modern electoral processes do not embrace mail in balloting. look across other countries, it is more open to fraud, ballot harvesting, more open to a less integrity filled election. is this the way to conduct
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elections going forward? >> a lot of breakdown in the post game. thanks for joining us, check back with you in a little bit. tensions rising on capitol hill on certifying the presidential election results with 100 republicans planning to object. todd: griff jenkins joins us, mike pence could have faces greatest political challenge yet. >> for anyone having a tough day be glad you are not walking around in mike pence's shoes, facing and loyalty tests and it appears there is little he can do about it and will rise in the wake of the secretary, leffler, one of 3 senators leading the challenge today. mike pence's problems started hours ago, if mike pence comes
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through, we will win the presidency. many states wants to decertify numbers, mike can send it back. new york times reports pencil the president he did not have the power to block congressional certifications which the president put out a statement the new york post, it is fake news, he never said that. vice president has the power to act. here's what we know at this moment. mike pence will preside over the electoral college vote count. his role is largely ceremonial overseeing accounting of certification. we will see what happens when it begins at 1:00 pm. senators left her, holly and cruz will lead the charge for georgia, arizona and pennsylvania. cruz had this to say. >> 5 too many people in
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washington are saying dismiss the claims out of hand, don't look at them, don't consider them, congress has have a blindfold on. i don't think that is right. we have an obligation to the constitution to defend the rule of law. >> reporter: joining them, 100 house republicans but the effort is not expected to succeed because when they vote on the state challenges the math doesn't add up and the democrats are sure to press the failure and senator sanders is sounding off. >> when you talk about undermining the election results, what you are talking about his tear any, authoritarianism. >> reporter: to understand how much of a hail mary this is the president would need all three state challenges to succeed to even begin to open a path. while all this is flying out thousands of trump supporters already gathering in washington to protest. we will see what happens.
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the president will address them at 11:00. i will join pete hegseth who was already down there. todd: let's bring in peter hegseth, cohost of "fox and friends" weekend live, we asked about the uncertainty of today inside congress and on the streets of washington. these big stories, what impact do you think the george of votes waiting for the results in georgia will have on what happens inside the building in congress and out on the streets? >> reporter: it raises skepticism and questions for both sides. the sentiment, the tinderbox around one square mile in washington dc is baked in, based on november. what happened last night but only inflame the sentiments of both sides be leaving joe biden won legitimately for democrats or for republicans the election
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was stolen and stolen yet again. when we stand in front of the stage the save america march will be happening at 11:00. the president is talking, his son, a number of other supporters of the president, bo brooks, marsha blackburn, others who organized this rally will take to the stage and that is moment before we may have to check on marsha blackburn. i don't believe she is speaking today. she was on the speakers list a couple hours later will be up on capitol hill, certification, all electoral college and there will be the opportunity to object, the vice president will be presiding, there will be a debate but it is unclear what the path remains after that if it will be enough to overturn the election but folks, thousands lining up prepared to move into this event.
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as a result creates the sentiments whatever happens over the next two weeks is very uncertain and throws it into a constitutional, potentially a constitutional crisis. mark levin has comments about that, we will play what he had to say on the other side. >> we have a constitutional crisis nobody wants to talk about. the four battleground states, you had unconstitutional elections. follow the constitution. unconstitutional elections as a result of what the democrats did. circumventing the state legislatures. >> reporter: he speaks for a lot of people who feel when you tell us to be quiet you don't want to investigate, we should unite and accept these results, it creates a fraction that becomes very difficult to repair and washington dc on inauguration day will be front and center on
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that. jillian: i think it is not going away after that either. a brand-new member of the house is ready to challenge the electoral college result, congresswoman mary miller says she will not stand by while our constitution is trampled on, she joined us next. todd: aoc and the squat allies getting big-time spots. the key that they are on when "fox and friends first" continues. ♪
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or than 100 florida republicans will challenge the electoral college certification of the 2020 presidential election. todd: our next guest is one of them, why she plans to contest it, congresswoman mary miller, thank you for joining us, appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me. jillian: tell us why you are deciding to do this and how you anticipate today going. >> the reason i'm doing this is
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unlike what bernie sanders said, that we are undermining the election results, they were undermined before ever got here. it is a shame all our institutions have failed us and it has come to this point but if we ignore that we are sitting precedent for the future and we know that in the key battleground states officials usurped the legislative authority to determine the manner the election should be held and i believe if we do not stand up and speak out against it and demand investigations which should have already been done that we are sitting precedent and for the future of our country, our children and grandchildren, we want free and fair elections and the people who represent my district, phones ringing off the hook
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thanking me for standing up on this issue and i am getting calls from other districts saying they want to adopt me as their congresswoman because their representative is not standing up. todd: along those lines senate republican ron johnson vowing to dig in to allegations of voter fraud if republicans to do this. >> there are many irregularities. we have been looking, some have been explained but some haven't. if we gain the majority i will be chairman of the senate subcommittee on investigations and i will guarantee that i will investigate and find out what the truth is. todd: as the results role in, should the american public be concerned that democrats will sweep this under the rug if they win both seats in georgia and ultimately take control of the senate? >> i definitely think that is a
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possibility. the democrats go to win at all costs and we have seen that before and i don't trust them and i don't see what is wrong with an investigation if there are no regularities, why do they care? todd: that is the question. they will say all republicans are trying to do is stop the democratic process trying to insert things into the wheel of the democratic process. how do you respond to that? >> that is not true. it is the fact that in the battleground states, officials took it upon themselves to usurp the legislative authority to direct the manner the election should be held and six states now, it will be 20 states next time and this is a foundational issue for the future of our country. we don't want to become a banana republic.
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jillian: thank you for joining us this morning, have a good day. >> thank you for having me. jillian: still had democrats projected to win one of the georgia senate runoff, the other race is too close to call. todd: how is wall street responding? shall casone from foxbusiness with a live look at market futures next. ♪ . . helping to prevent gum disease and bad breath. never settle for 25%. always go for 100. bring out the bold™
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jillian: protests in kenosha, wisconsin over a decision not to charge officers involved in the jacob lake shooting. the president of the police union saying, quote, the officers attempted to take mister blake into custody by giving him a verbal command, physically struggling with them in deploying their tasers. mister blake could have and
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should have complied with their lawful orders. the prosecutors claim evidence show the officer fired in self defense. blake was armed with a knife when he was shot several times leaving him paralyzed. his attorney said the decision for the distress trust in our justice system. this part several violent protests. todd: shooting two people and wounding a third, pleads not guilty. his trial set to begin in march but could be delayed. meantime stock futures next this morning as we await the final georgia senate runoff result, democrats projected to win one, the second too close to call. jillian: are you surprised how the markets are reacting? >> what is happening on the nasdaq, what futures are doing, down futures are hired by 58 points, s&p down 10 and a half,
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the nasdaq is down 229 points. that the big hit for the nasdaq and the premarket. some analysts saying there is a concern among wall street investors, technology, such a boomer for investors, democrats control senate, congress, more regulation and push down on big tech companies, google, i same mix, and saying this morning, a 10% correction on the s&p. other investment analysts over ubs, if you have democrats in charge, checks come out and increase employment benefits. when i say mixed reaction?
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jillian: was the win baked in on monday? was the s&p and outgoing up a sign that like you said maybe markets are excited for all the free money that will come. to the nasdaq for a moment. all their money, and unkind media support went to the democrats. >> reaction on the tech heavy nasdaq, the corporate tax rate story. the corporate tax rate, and that is one of the issues that they face. the nasdaq, i watched the energy companies, exxon and shell are problems.
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the two georgia races, and energy infrastructure will be problematic. jillian: thank you. and hours a number of republican lawmakers will contest the electoral college results. neil: speak with one lawmaker plans to challenge the certification and another who will not next. ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel ♪ [man: coughing] ♪ it's a new dawn, it's a new day... ♪ no matter how you got copd it's time to make a stand. ♪ ...and i'm feelin' good start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy helps people breathe easier
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todd: a growing coalition of republican set to launch their final challenge to the 2020 election by electing -- objecting to the electoral college results, one of those republicans planning to contest the certification joins me to explain why. before we get to why can you
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briefly explain logistically how this challenge goes down? >> what is going to happen is you will have an objection on how side, a corresponding objection from a senator. this will go by state alphabetically and there will be at least four states, arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, forget the fourth but there will be at least four that will be challenged and that is going to be how this plays out. this will be a monumental day in american history, make no mistake especially if the trend continues in the state of georgia you will see the stakes go monumentally higher. todd: why did you make the decision to challenge? >> the fact that there were multiple states, the ones that get cute up today and challenged today that broke their own laws and they bypassed their state legislatures when they changed the election and that pools into question the results of those
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elections. my colleagues and a number of people coming up on your show say congress doesn't have responsibility to get involved here. it is true it is state legislatures who have the right to set those election parameters the congress has a constitutional oversight role, that is what we are exercising and to prove that look at the twelfth amendment, there is a process, that is what you see unfold on a monumental scale. one last thing on that front. this is not new. democrats have done this every republican presidential election since 2000. the difference this time is the magnitude and the number of people that will be objecting. todd: you alluded to the splitting your party, one of those who is not on your side senator tom cotton says the
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following, quote, congress would take away the power to choose the president from the people and place it in the hands of whichever party controls congress. this action would end our tradition of democratic presidential elections empowering politicians. how do you respond? >> simply not true. there is a provision for this but i respect the opinion and we will hear that a lot today but once again if there was not an intended process for this is wouldn't be described in the constitution. no one at least on the house side wants to see the ability of states to put parameters in on their own elections. no one wants to do that but at the same time we do want to fulfill our obligation to stand when we see something that is wrong. there are tens of millions of people who want to see action on this who are convinced there's election fraud. we have a problem here. todd: on the side of challenging, thank you, we go to
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jillian for the side of not challenging. jillian: not all republicans are vowing the certification but our next guest says there is a path for donald trump but this isn't it. republican congressman thomas matthew joins me with why he will vote to certify the results. thank you for joining us. you just heard from congressman folger who said the reason he is doing this is, quote, states broke their own laws. do you agree with that? >> i agree congress has a constitutional role to play but our job is to determine are these the electors state centers, not are these the electors we wish they would have sent us or should have sent us. it is not rolled to overturn an election.
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no state sent a competing set of electors, no state informed us we should decertify our electors with there are letters floating out there but they are asking for an investigation. i want an investigation too. i wonder why donald trump's ag will you buy didn't do an investigation and why his new ag that started christmas eve hasn't done an investigation. some of the states have sent letters but they don't constitute a majority of their legislature. ironically the same part of the constitution as the people who want to challenge these electors, i say it is the legislature's role. if a majority of any legislature talks to me between now and 1:00 pm and says please decertify our electors i would do it. jillian: what do we do going forward about how the states broke their own laws? what do we do to ensure this doesn't happen again? a lot of people take issue with
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that? >> state legislatures need to tighten up their laws. when you have mail in elections there is no way to do voter id when someone isn't showing up to vote. there is a certain fried baked into all elections. they need to go back to their own states but we can't do that for them in congress, we can't fix their election law and in a lot of those states i believe those legislators wanted the laws changed and didn't want to do it themselves. if they have a problem they need to get hold of me by 1:00 pm today, otherwise i'm following the electors every state sent us. it is a race to the bottom if we replace the electoral college with congress because nancy pelosi controls congress. i can tell you this today the result is going to be joe biden will be named president by congress because nancy pelosi controls the house which we don't want to turn elections
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over to the house. jillian: sounds like you are open to changing your mind on this if you see the appropriate information in front of you if you make that change. thank you for joining us, appreciate your time. neil: nancy pelosi handing alexandria ocasio cortez a powerful committee assignment, landed a seat on the house oversight committee and is going to be joined by two allies from the squad, rashida tlaib of michigan and the newest member of the squad, oversight committee is responsible for investigating committees like waste, fraud, and abuse of power. >> representative gwen moore denies breaking quarantine to cast a ballot for nancy pelosi, she tested positive for covid-19 five days before making it public. more traveled to be in washington dc to vote to keep pelosi speaker of the house. republican congresswoman kathy mc morris rogers is floating the idea of dropping a motion to
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back, fox news alert, profitable warnock projected 20 kelly (georgia. todd: what implications will this have in washington. will kane joins us live in atlanta to weigh in. last hour or the beginning of this hour we focused on the future of voting. now talking about the ramifications of what the georgia the means and the money to start. how big a thank you note are governors and legislators in california, illinois, connecticut, new jersey and new
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york, writing to the fine folks in georgia for basically covering all their public pension debt and all the debt they accumulated over the course of their decades of democratic administrations? >> the tax death spiral they entered with covid-19 lockdowns. we see the stats on how many are moving out of california in places like new york city during these lockdowns. abandon those states in places like texas and florida. what happens when attack spaces gone. how we recoup the business laws, mounting problems including rising crime rates, a tax death spiral, to help bail out those decisions which you brought up what we talked about at the top of the are, 4.4 million votes cast total, stunning number of votes. what we are looking at his entrance into the political arena of the casual political
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observer, people who into the debate in the past four years and that conversation has largely been consumed by donald trump, pro-or anti-donald trump and what he tweeted, what his legacy's statement might be but underneath that coverage, anything to do with donald trump the democratic party has lurched far to the left, the democratic party has embraced concepts like defund the police. which party has called for more censorship online? which party is embracing lockdowns? the party that is now in power across both branches of legislative government and the executive as well. the casual political observer is about to find out what the democratic party has been about underneath the superficial but glitzy coverage of donald trump in the past four years. >> folks at home are watching and joining us, we are still waiting for the results of one
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senate race between john ossoff and david. do. what do you think of the impact of someone like stacy abrams in georgia? she has been working hard for years to try to secure young votes in the black community. what do you think republicans can learn going forward in order to make more inroads with millennials, young voters, up and coming voters. >> stacy abrams's influence has been profound in the state of georgia to motivate voters and to embrace differences, changes in the past hour to the voting lies making it easier to vote through mail. and is georgia purple state? .
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>> what has gone wrong with the rollout of the vaccine with websites crashing? if i could finish my question. >> if i could complete the question. >> are you going to ask a question? >> ron desantis pushing back after a porter blames them for coronavirus vaccine distribution. >> independent women's form senior policy analyst, thanks
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for being here. there is blame to go around and a lot of states because a lot of people argue vaccines are not being distributed quickly enough in states across the country. in florida in particular what is your reaction to that exchange? >> without donald trump the media needs a new bogeyman to go after and you can tell who they are threatened by by who they attack. in this case it was a cnn reporter speaking very disrespectfully to florida governor, who has handled this crisis very well. i spent a lot of time in florida during the pandemic and things are relatively normal, as normal as they can be in a pandemic, schools are open, even disney world is allowed to be open, small businesses are not shutting down left and right,
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the vaccine distribution process started perfectly and seamlessly? know. desantis admitted so much and is working hard to ensure his constituents are able to get this vaccine but compared to a lot of blue states like new york, here in florida the fact that the elderly population is eligible right now to get a vaccine is a very good step and whether you are from a red state or blue state every politician should be acting with more urgency in delivering these vaccines. >> florida doing a pretty good job with vaccines distributed. there are the numbers on your screen, new york and california not doing so well in the big apple but have you heard any reporter from cnn asked governor cuomo anything similar? >> of course not and this is how
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the media has treated red state versus blue states and the start of the pandemic as we all know by now governor cuomo sent covid-19 patients into nursing homes which caused thousands of unnecessary deaths. he has still not been held accountable for that. instead he's written a book portraying himself as some sort of covid-19 hero for the way he responded to the pandemic. a huge double standard, we know children are suffering, and who is ensuring they are being educated, in school learning, that is governor ron desantis who the media is trying to portray as the new bully man. jillian: i've read multiple reports that vaccines have a shelf life, you have to get them distributed so thank you for joining us. have a good day and up next, bill kern joins us to react to rafael warnock's projected win.
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jillian: democrat raphael warnock is projected to unseat kelly loeffler in georgia. todd: the battalion for the senate unclear as the race between david perdue and jon ossoff still too close to call. here to react fox news contributor and former speech writer for president george w. bush bill mcgurn. bill, great to see you as always. your take on the results so far or better yet is democratic senator joe marchen now the most
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important senator for republicans? >> well, i think he is. i don't have much confidence in mr. manchin. he does vote with republicans sometimes. but the question is would he be willing to be the vote that goes dependence his party to be the deciding vote? he tends to vote when there is two or three on the other side already. that will be a big question. as you point out, what's at stake now is washington. it's the biden agenda whether it's going to sail through congress up molested or whether the republicans will have a chance to block or temper it. jillian: take a look at this poll here 94% of voters say party control of the senate was important factor to their vote. 60% saying it was the single most important factor. you know, you wonder what the next few years looks like in jon ossoff is to win. again, that race still too close to call. are you surprised that this is where we are this morning? >> no.
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because i think everyone understood that this was almost a second presidential election. it was going to determine the biden presidency and how much pushback they would get from congress. so that doesn't surprise me. and people have been pounding on the theme since november. the again, it's going to be a very different washington whether chuck schumer or mitch mcconnell is in charge of the senate. it kind of refutes what you are saying. refutes the old tipp o'neal idea. all politics is local. the georgiaens understood all their votes in this election were national. todd: interesting. meantime as we have talked about all morning long, mail-in ballots once again playing a huge role in all of this. should we have a better, quicker system in place not just at the state level but nationally? i understand that state legislatures control their voting rules but still we need to have a better system, don't we? >> oh, of course we need to have
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a better system. and the mail-in vote the way it was done, you know, invite, distrust and all sorts of things. some states are about five or six states mostly in the west oregon have had mail-in balloting for years. but they have a lot more safeguards. and i think it's important as balloting is, is to have real dead lines. so that votes can be in on time and counted on time. and we have these sliding deadlines all over the place, which i think are terrible idea. i think we have to look at the whole system and figure out why in an advanced country such as ours. with the best technology in the world votes like it's the 19th century. todd: great point. jillian: real quick, the electoral challenge college today, does mike pence have the power as the president suggests block congressional certification of the election results? what too you say? >> you know, it's never been decided by a court. i tend to doubt it.
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i'm kind of on the side of the skeptics. that he doesn't have that power. but, in fairness to the people that argue that, it would be something tested in court. i'm not sure the courts would grant it to him. you know, it's a very serious thing. and, again, just been untested before. todd: do you see any path for trump? >> i don't. i didn't vote for mr. biden, and -- voted for him. i just think we are delaying the inevitable right now. jillian: bill mcgurn, thank you for joining us. we appreciate your time. >> thanks, jillian, have a good day. jillian: once again if you are just waking up raphael warnock is the projected winner of that senate race against kelly loeffler and the other one between david perdue and jon ossoff still too close to call. todd: and bill is thanking us again. with that keep it on the fox news channel all day long as we monitor the georgia run off the electoral college challenge
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today. it is going to be a very busy day here on the channel. jillian: a lot of implications not just georgia but far beyond for our entire country and "fox & friends" has continuing coverage starting right now, bye-bye. ♪ >> georgia democrat raphael warnock will unseat republican senator kelly loeffler. >> georgia, i am honored by the faith you have shown. >> asking for every single georgian stay in the fight with us. >> but the battle for control of the senate still unclear as the race between senator david perdue and democrat jon ossoff is too close to call. >> meanwhile all of this is playing out thousands of trump supporters are gathering right now here in washington to protest. >> there is attention in the streets, no doubt. which i believe will translate into this rally. >> no kenosha law enforcement officer in this case will be charged. >> hundreds are the streets to protest that verdict. >>

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